Alice in Wonderland was told to Alice Liddell and her two young sisters by a friend of their father at Oxford, Charles Dodgson (alias Lewis Carroll). Dodgson was often given to entertaining the girls with stories during summer jaunts on the river. There had been many similar jaunts, and similar stories, but on this occasion Alice Liddell enjoyed the story Dodgson told so much that she asked him to write it down for her. He did so and the very first version of Alice, known as ALICE'S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND came into being. It was revise an expanded into the work we ave today, which is presented here along with another of Dodgson 's famous but less often printed works, THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK.
--front flap

Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898; Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898. Hunting of the snark

Templar Publishing

Dorking: Templar

Pippbrook Books

Waterstone's Classics Collection, 1st ed., Surrey, 2007

Waterstone's classics collection, Dorking, 2007

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Published for Borders, Inc., PS, 2010

First Edition, 2009-05-07

UK

"What is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures?" For over 125 years John Tenniel's superb illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland have been the perfect complement to Lewis Carroll's timeless story. In that time Alice has been illustrated by numerous artists, but not one has come close to matching the universal appeal of the original pictures. This is the first Alice to reproduce Ternniel's exquisite drawings from prints taken directly from the original wood engravings. Here, Tenniel's fine line work is far crisper, delicate shadings are reproduced with more subtlety, and details never seen before are now visible. Like most nineteenth-century children's books, the pictures for Alice were created by transferring the artist's drawings to woodblocks, But with Alice, the original blocks served as masters from which metal plates were made for printing. Unfortunately, these plates deteriorated from the repeated pressure applied during printing, and over time, many of the fine lines in Tenniel's pictures simply vanished altogether. As the year-, passed, the original woodblocks disappeared and were believed lost; then, in 1985 they were discovered in a London bank vault. Now, for the first time, prints from these woodblocks have been used to produce a deluxe gift edition with clearer, more detailed images than have ever been seen before. At last, readers can see the Alice that Carroll and Tenniel had originally envisioned

An illustrated hardcover which collects Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the poem Hunting of the Snark.

Contains:
- [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8193508W)
- The Hunting of the Snark

153 pages [20] pages of plates : 24 cm
[Title from jacket]
Originally published: Macmillan, 1865

2023-06-28